[ Well, that makes him pause. Her Russian is flawless. And she's not the kind of person who'd lie, right? Right. That's not even worth considering. ]
Well, it's not that bad. You're communicating perfectly, just in a different language. [ Viktor, that's not the problem. ]
You're saying you learned to speak Russian overnight? And some Japanese?
and you lost your native English?
[ He's still rolling with it, of course. But that's less a of quirk and more of a survival skill at this point, so it's not like he's going to stop doing that if he can help it. It doesn't make sense at all, but that's kind of a pattern now, isn't it? He checks the Retrospec app to see what's going on there as soon as he sends this message. Assuming that anything strange may be traced back to Retrospec is, well, not as farfetched as it should be. ]
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Well, it's not that bad. You're communicating perfectly, just in a different language. [ Viktor, that's not the problem. ]
You're saying you learned to speak Russian overnight? And some Japanese?
and you lost your native English?
[ He's still rolling with it, of course. But that's less a of quirk and more of a survival skill at this point, so it's not like he's going to stop doing that if he can help it. It doesn't make sense at all, but that's kind of a pattern now, isn't it? He checks the Retrospec app to see what's going on there as soon as he sends this message. Assuming that anything strange may be traced back to Retrospec is, well, not as farfetched as it should be. ]